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Outside Hitchens dying, the other horseman are still out there, and they have not faded. Americans simply have a short attention span when it comes to news cycles..

Atheists got a lot of attention back then because it was new as far a size to the rest of society. But I wouldn't say atheists have faded, that would be a mistake.

They faded in the sense, that Haley Joel Osmond acting career has faded. We're no longer as interested in folks like Dawkins and Dennett as we were a decade ago.

And yes, particularly in the western world, non-believer will continue to grow, at the expensive of the religious, but they're likely to more apathetic about religion, as the trend in other western nations. You're probably not going to see a growth in atheists conventions, or a second generation of Rational Responders.